Sentence examples for professed motive from inspiring English sources
Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama who has studied mass shootings, said a killer's professed motive can also represent incomplete or self-serving information.
But the reality is that jurisdiction tends to dictate outcome: courts understandably look askance at abductors, regardless of their professed motives, and often punish them, and unfortunately also the child, with loss of custody.
Emphasis on this aspect of their teachings led, in the late 18th and early 19th century, to the modern understanding of cynicism as "an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others".
He has not condemned the professed white-supremacist motives of the accused killer.
Because although they refuse to believe a militant when he divulges a religious motive, which is generally thought to have deeper non-religious roots, they happily take his professed political and economic motives at face value.
He was a professed socialist.
Still, many professed optimism.
The problem is the professed beliefs.
Take Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the professed "steamroller".
And its professed independence is largely illusory.
